News from March 2019
By State Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Jim Risch (R-ID) and Bob Menendez (D-NJ), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, have introduced bipartisan legislation that commends Canada for upholding the rule of law and expressing concern over actions by China in response to a request ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Joshua Langbien, of Buckhannon, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - A Princeton woman pled guilty today to federal gun crimes, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Kimberly Addair, 46, of Princeton, West Virginia, entered her guilty pleas to one count of making false or fictitious statements, and one count of disposing of firearms to a convicted...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening remarks during a Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law hearing on “Diagnosing the Problem: Exploring the Effects of Consolidation and Anticompetitive Conduct in Health Care Markets"...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Three New York men have been charged for their participation in a conspiracy to distribute heroin and fentanyl after they were arrested at a heroin mill in Bronx, New York, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that a Fayette County man was sentenced in federal court on his conviction for conspiracy to distribute oxycodone. Gary Harvey, 48, of Fayetteville, was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison. Harvey was one of the defendants charged...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - A Princeton woman pled guilty today to federal gun crimes, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Kimberly Addair, 46, of Princeton, West Virginia, entered her guilty pleas to one count of making false or fictitious statements, and one count of disposing of firearms to a convicted ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum announced on March 6, 2019, Randy Allen Gray, Jr., age 40, was sentenced by United States Senior District Court Judge Robert W. Pratt for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Gray was sentenced to ten years in prison, to be followed by a term of supervised release for ten years.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: This morning, federal authorities arrested Albert DeLeon for his alleged role in threatening to harm a government informant, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash; Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy, Houston Division; and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA, PA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain, along with Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman, announced today that the owner and operator of a Philadelphia-based tax preparation business and his employee were charged with preparing fraudulent tax returns and related crimes in order to reduce taxes and inflate federal tax refunds for their clients.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Owen Fickett, 32, of Harrington, Maine, was sentenced to three years in prison and three years of supervised release today in U.S. District Court by Judge Lance E. Walker for possession with the intent to distribute heroin and cocaine base, commonly known as “crack.".
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
Release: NEW YORK - The number of passengers expected to fly this spring is expected to be the highest in years with more than 2.2 million passengers per day expected to pass through Transportation Security Administration checkpoints during the popular spring break travel period. Nationwide, TSA expects to screen 107 million passengers and crew from March 14 to April 28. This represents checkpoint volume growth of more than 3 percent compared to the same period in 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Jun Ying, who committed insider trading by exercising his company stock options ahead of Equifax’s public announcement of its massive data breach, pleaded guilty to a charge of securities fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Clinton, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for a $4.7 million investment fraud scheme in which he defrauded 92 investors who believed they were purchasing cattle for resale at a profit.
By State Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Chairman Eliot Engel (D-NY) released the following joint statement on recent reports that Dr. Walid Fitaihi, a dual citizen of the United States and Saudi Arabia, has been detained and tortured while in Saudi custody...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Jeremy Smith, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 51 months incarceration for a child pornography charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Merwin Smith, 41, of St. Louis, MO, was convicted by a jury today in U.S. District Court in St. Louis for one count of felon in possession of a firearm. Smith’s trial took place before U.S. District Court Judge John Ross who set a sentencing hearing for June 13, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: PITTSBUGRH, PA - A former resident of Mount Oliver, PA, has been sentenced in federal court to 10 years and seven months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release on his convictions on federal bank robbery charges, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
Release: Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-MN), Chair of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's second day of public witness hearings on tribal programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. -A former resident of Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of bank robbery and Hobbs Act robbery, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
